The challenges of researching drug-related emergency department presentations using reviews of medical charts.

CONCLUSION: This paper advances methodological discourse about the challenges inherent when using medical charts for data collection. Despite the inherent challenges, medical charts are an important source of information about injury, disease and substance misuse. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Nursing staff may face challenges when conducting research using patient medical charts. The quality of data abstracted from medical charts is affected by the data abstraction process used as well as the quality and accuracy of clinical documentation. PMID: 30511555 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Nurse Researcher - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Nurse Res Source Type: research